Thursday, July 30, 2015

Time for the 6 year update on my twins! Every year, I get a little bit later when I
write this. Eventually, I’ll just have
to skip a year to catch up. J

Hadley and Leila are at Uncle Tex and Aunt Paula’s this week
for Vacation Bible School at their church.
There are two things there that they love dearly: their cousin Trinity,
and KITTENS! I haven’t even been able to
get them to talk to me on the phone for more than a couple of minutes because
being there is just so exciting! But we
all miss them, especially Marlowe.

Well, the twins turned six back in June, and we celebrated
with a picnic themed party. We had so
much fun. Now they have 100 different
ideas for next year’s theme. We’ll see
what they come up with!

I always start the yearly update with our “oldest”,
Hadley. This year, Hadley started and
finished her first year of Kindergarten.
(I say “first year” because we are switching schools and the birthday
cut-off date is different at our new school, so they’ll do Kindergarten again
this year. I’m sure they’ll be at the
top of their class!) Hadley really
excelled in school. She picked up
reading incredibly quickly and was reading easy chapter books by the end of the
year. She tested well above “benchmark”
in all areas at the end of the year as well.

One of my favorite things about Hadley is her creativity and
innovation. Almost every day, she
decides that she wants to make something, and will figure out how to do it,
usually with just paper, crayons, and tape.
She’s always so pleased with the end result, even if it doesn’t work or
ends up breaking. She’s made costumes,
kites, books, homemade stuffed animals ...
there are so many more that I can’t even remember. She and Leila also regularly throw “parties”,
complete with invitations, themes, and stuffed animal attendees.

Also this year, Hadley took up a campaign for a baby brother. She has always loved babies and has decided
that our family needs another one. She’s
a sweet and loving big sister, for sure.
She made the most adorable list in the world. On this list, she named the baby (Levi Max,
because that’s what she would have been named if she had been a boy), listed
all of the activities that they could do together (including “choklet”, “rok a
by baby”, and “soker”), and even gave him a birthday (May 25). At the bottom, she wrote “I Love You”. My mommy heart melted into a puddle.